Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartoonist's best boon to citizens weary of campaign pomposities and profundities is laughter. Than laughter, few political weapons are more damaging. Manhattan's smartchart, The New Yorker, demonstrated that sound fact this year when, just for fun, it printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential...
...said nothing. Good Friday her labor began. The astounding fortitude of girls "in trouble'' sustained her, stifled her groans, betrayed her labor to her parents by not so much as a grimace. After her parents went to bed, she went to the bathroom. There, alone and without sound, crouching in a tormented daze, she bore her son. She thought, she swore in court last week, that he was born dead. After a rest the girl gathered her infant in her arms, mounted to the tenement roof. She walked to the neighboring airshaft, planning, she swore, to toss self...
...Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 149th and 150th Streets. They contain 511 apartments, largely units of four and five rooms. Adhering to the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy with a purpose, Mr. Junior planned not only to house disadvantaged Negroes but also to prove that it could be done on a sound business basis and thus to stimulate housing improvements in Harlem far beyond the scope of private philanthropy or public subsidy. He took a $2,000,000 mortgage on the Dunbar Apartments, receiving a 5% return on his investment. Fortnight ago Mr. Rockefeller started to foreclose his mortgage...
...demand for Fairchild's highly-specialized goods and services. Sales of the camera division last year were only $776,000, of the survey division $245,000. Staffed and equipped to turn out almost any kind of precision instrument, Fairchild's Woodside (N. Y.) plant has lately added sound and recording equipment. Lens-making it has never tried, preferring to purchase the types it needs from famed grinders like Bausch & Lomb...
...enough men can be collected, the plan is to have the sound truck go to one spot, collect a crowd by playing records, and then leave a man to address the assembly. The sound truck will then go to another square where the speeches will be made from the truck. Impromptu talks are usually given...